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mushroom

( mushrooms plural & 3rd person present ) ( mushrooming present participle ) ( mushroomed past tense & past participle )

1 n-var Mushrooms are fungi that you can eat.
There are many types of wild mushrooms., ...mushroom omelette.
→ button mushroom

2 verb If something such as an industry or a place mushrooms, it grows or comes into existence very quickly.
The media training industry has mushroomed over the past decade... V
A sleepy capital of a few hundred thousand people has mushroomed to a crowded city of 2 million. V to/into n

button mushroom ( button mushrooms plural ) Button mushrooms are small mushrooms used in cooking. n-count usu pl

magic mushroom ( magic mushrooms plural ) Magic mushrooms are a type of mushroom which contain a drug and may make the person who eats them believe they are seeing things which are not real. n-count usu pl

mushroom cloud ( mushroom clouds plural ) A mushroom cloud is an extremely large cloud caused by a nuclear explosion. n-count

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I rest my case	n.	Phrase used when someone has brought all the evidences to support his point of view; "I'm done with explanations"
ELI5	abbr. acron.	Short for "Explain it like I'm 5".	Most often, it's used to explain science or technology in layman's terms.
be stuffed to the gills	v.	be satiated/sated ; you might say 'I'm stuffed to the gills' to refuse more food meaning that you can't possibly eat any more or as a way of complimenting someone's cooking because it suggests that the food was so good that you ate more than you meant to.	Jennifer: More potatoes? Adele: Oh, no thank you, Jen! I'm stuffed to the gills. What a delicious meal!
it hit me	exp.	it occurred to me, I suddenly thought of it, I had an idea all of a sudden	E.g: I wondered all day long how to solve this problem and it suddenly hit me...I had to talk to Marry.
so am I	exp.	me too
beats me!	exp.	I have no idea; I don't have a clue	[Informal] E.g.: Why was she upset? - Beats me!
allow me!	exp.	polite expression offering to do something for someone
hand me up	n.	a technology item that a young person no longer uses and hands over to an older person, after having purchased a last generation product	[Bus.];[Tech.]
lend me your ears!	exp.	expression used for catching the attention of an audience
AMA	abbr. acron.	Acronym for Ask Me Anything.	AMA is a series started on Reddit, where an authority on a subject fields open questions.
he|she loves me not	exp.	a humorous way of saying that someone doesn't like or love the speaker.	[Hum.] E.g.: You've seen the way she treated me last time we met. It's clear: she loves me not.
love me, love my dog	exp.	expression used for pointing out that, if you love someone, you accept also things and people dear to the person you love
it's all Greek to me	id.	phrase used to qualify something appearing to you incomprehensible or hard to understand	According to Albert, this partial differential equation was beautiful, harmonious, speaking louder than any words while it was all Greek to me and just looked like fly droppings on a sheet of paper!
keep posted	exp.	keep informed of changes	"Please, keep me posted on your project`s progress."
! I feel queer	n.	I feel weird	adj Depuis plusieurs ans, "Queer" n'est plus commun pour se sentir mal. Ça veut dire "gai" ou homosexuel. Weird est beaucoup plus simple sans avoir deux sens.

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